Reply #8: Education is a key. [View All]

[PDJane]

It's not the only key. Western support of corrupt governments such as suharto's and the western manipulation of the economies of these countries is the reason for the grinding poverty. Helping to increase production by using western farming methods was an environmental disaster; if you want to see how ugly that can get, look at Israel's land use and the depletion of the water table or the Australian problem with salinification.

I'm old enough and was involved enough to remember the results of the first agricultural revolution.